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Century Quote by Leon Kass

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“One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?”

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Century Indifferent Longevity Looks Oneself Over the past Past

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Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

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If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

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